Autistic? I Speak it Like a Native

Autistic? I Speak it Like a Native

What autism feels like and what science knows about it. An aid to translation

Autism is surrounded by many clichés and misunderstandings. Common perception range from super brains to people who do not interact with their environment. Stephanie Meer-Walter, herself a person with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (“Asperger’s Syndrome”), promotes greater understanding, tolerance, and a resource-oriented and more realistic view of autistic people. To make this possible, she combines the scientific perspective of what is going on in the brain, emotional world, and sensory perception of autistic people with the internal view of those affected.
With this unique approach, she systematically explains what it feels like to be autistic, what causes autism, and how autistic and non-autistic people can cope with it. This important no longer defines autistic in distinction from “normality,” but as way of being in its on right: not better or worse, just different.

• Combines scientific knowledge with experience
• An eye-opener for those directly affected well as friends and relatives
• Written in a lively and self-deprecating style
• Clears up clichés and misunderstandings

»Enduring our own or others’ otherness is perhaps the greatest challenge in our lives. But if we learn this otherness like a foreign language, immerse ourselves in the other world, then we can understand and thus also appreciate each other.« – Stephanie Meer-Walter